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> As always very good content from owasp. I have a severely jaded view of OWASP content: I feel it’s very hit and miss; never excellent, and often mediocre. Th
by chrismorgan 5y ago
> As always very good content from owasp.
I have a severely jaded view of OWASP content: I feel it’s very hit and miss; never excellent, and often mediocre. They do have some decent stuff, but historically I’ve found it regularly quite low-quality; my favourite example is that their XSS stuff is quite badly written, utterly incomplete, severely misleading in places, and recommends doing some things that are completely unnecessary, with no explanation of why except in one place where it provides an incomplete citation to a spec from at least 15 years ago (section number but no mention of even what spec), on a point where that spec was actually at fault and didn’t reflect what anyone ever did (I think that was about the ' character reference in XML). Until the end of last year it said to escape / as / with no explanation, so that got cargo-culted, and they resisted removing it largely because there’s got to be some reason why it’s been there for at least a decade, right?